Support NeoGAF

[sonomamashine]

 

[godhandiscen]

Yeah, the culture in Korea/Taiwan and other areas of Asia is more aware of these threats, to the point that they even imagined a virus of similar characteristics.

 

[Kamina]

Imagining a mutated Virus with two weeks incubation time isnt fortune telling.

 

[Armorian]

SARS and MERS were before COVID19 so it's not suprising that people knew about coronaviruses years ago.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Imagining a mutated Influenca Virus with two weeks incubation time isnt fortune telling.

Corona virus isn't an influenza virus.

 

[DeepEnigma]

They have known about this for some time.

https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/20/4/660.full.pdf

This escaped from a lab, or was purposely let out.

 

[Elektro Demon]

I think it was inspired by sars and that other one rather then this particular one.

 

[A.Romero]

The TV show The good place has a character that comes from Florida and is really dumb. In an episode he casually comments that there is a flu with his name that was created after kissing a bat.

Great writers but nothing more than a simple coincidence.

 

[jts]

90% mortality rate isn't even close to what we have fortunately, and if it attacked the lungs in 5 minutes it would seriously hamper its spreading ability. People would die and look seriously sick before they would have the chance to spread it.

And coronavirus is just a kind of virus. It doesn't describe the Covid-19 in particular.

I'm gonna say this myth is busted.

 

[Kenpachii]

90% mortality rate isn't even close to what we have fortunately, and if it attacked the lungs in 5 minutes it would seriously hamper its spreading ability. People would die and look seriously sick before they would have the chance to spread it.

And coronavirus is just a kind of virus. It doesn't describe the Covid-19 in particular.

I'm gonna say this myth is busted.

Wasn't that what killed that other virus in africa ebola i believe, the moment it could spread u couldn't walk anymore.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Dean Koontz predicted it in 1981 with his novel "The Eyes of Darkness". The novel tells the story about a Chinese scientist who develops a biological weapon called Gorki-400. This name was later changed to "Wuhan-400" in later editions of the novel.

 

[near]

SARS and MERS were before COVID19 so it's not suprising that people knew about coronaviruses years ago.

This.